Show A MONOPOLISTIC COMBINATION One of the features of the trial of Samuel Sam-uel 1 T Parks who was convicted of extortion ex-tortion and blackmail in the ordering of strikes in New York was little dwelt upon in the reports because perhaps it was not fully proved That was the questioning of him by which It was sought to show that he was taken toNe to-Ne York from Chicago by a construction construc-tion company on the proposition that he was to order strikes on work other building concerns had the contracts for That is one building company seeks to control all the building operations of a great city by having in its employ a walking delegate of the unions who will hamper the I work of Its rivals by h orderIng order-Ing strikes against them so that It will be unsafe and undesirable for any one to give contracts to any but the one corporation cor-poration which employs the walking delegate It is a monstrous proposition and would establish a monopoly of which all other forms would be but feeble Imitations Imita-tions And that the idea l of this form of monopolistic combination between capital capi-tal and a form of union agitation Is not peculiar to Parks is certain a writer In a recent Eastern magazine showing that it is already In operation In a number of the trades In Chicago the phase of it resulting in a close monopoly for the corner I that Is thus formed by 1 the combination com-bination between the favored capitalistic concerns and the labor unions that have Joined In the movement |